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On this edition of the Alternative Health Show with Dr. Carol Roberts, her guest Mary Shomon discussed hypothyroidism, a condition involving an under-performing thyroid. Shomon was diagnosed with the syndrome ten years ago and has made it her life's work. She's authored several books on the topic. She says the syndrome is much more common among women and may be missed by a doctor's standard tests. She offered some advice about how to recognize it (fatigue, weight gain, depression, joint pain,...

Last Friday, The US envirofuels corporation announced they would like to build fuel ethanol distillery at Port Manatee. It would be the first US based ethanol plant built at a port, and it comes just as the US senate is set to begin debate on the role ethanol should play as Americans are trying to reduce their dependence on foreign oil. WMNFs Andrew Stelzer has the story.

Ethanol is distilled from corn, it can be added to gasoline up to about 10 percent, and ethanol mixed gasoline...

The second week of the trial against Dr Sami Al-Arian opened with testimony from a former CIA agent. Manuel Perez worked with the FBI in Tampa from Ã¢â¬â¢78 -2000, and interviewed Al-Arian on at least four separate occasions between 1991 & 1992. The FBI agent also stated that he believed Al-Arain was not completely candid with him during the casual interviews and said that he believed the former USF professor was an active member of the PIJ, but failed to provide reasoning for this judgm...

On Saturday, protestors from St. Pete for Peace held signs calling retired General Tommy Franks a war criminal, a butcher, and a war profiteer. The protestors gathered in front of Sam's Club in Clearwater where the former Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command and orchestrator of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, was doing a book signing for his book American Soldier. A couple of the protestors waited in the book signing line for the chance to confront General Franks. WMNF...

Jill Schneiderman, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of Geology and Geography at Vassar, editor of "The Earth Around Us: Maintaining a Livable Planet." This book was named one of the most important and thought-provoking science books of the year 2000by Discover magazine. She has published extensively on environmental issues, water resources, feminism and the history of science.

Dr. Schneiderman talked about feminist aspects of environmentalism, including the current tropical s...

Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinaabeg and is the mother of three children. She is the Program Director of Honor the Earth and the Founding Director of White Earth Land Recovery Project.

In 1989, LaDuke received the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which, in part, she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project. In 1994, she was nominated by Time magazine as one of AmericaÃ¢â¬â¢s fifty most promising leaders under forty years of ...

The Sarasota Herald Tribune reported today that not everybody in the Florida Republican Party is convinced that Katherine Harris will be the only candidate to run for the GOP Senate nomination next year.

On Tuesday, Harris announced that Ã¢â¬â after much speculation- she would in fact, run for the U.S. Senate against Democrat incumbent Bill Nelson.

Unlike the race for Governor to succeed Jeb Bush, no other prominent Republicans had entered the race yet Ã¢â¬â waitin...

Revelations that the Brevard county Sheriffs department, and the Melbourne police department were keeping records of peaceful political protestors have forced changes for the police, but community members are still wondering which agencies now have information about them. The surveillance was first discovered in January, when Jeff Nall, an organizer for a group called Patriots for peace organized an protest in the city of Melbourne on the day of president bushÃ¢â¬â¢s inauguration.